Dictionary of Welsh Biography

LEWIS, Sir JOHN HERBERT (1858 - 1933), lawyer and politician active part in arranging for the passing of this Act and of the Teachers' Superannuation Act, and in obtaining educational grants for ex-service men. Sir Herbert Lewis (he had been made G.B.E. in 1922) was married twice - (a) in 1886 to Adelaide (died 1895), daughter of Charles Hughes, publisher, Wrexham, and (b) in 1897 to Ruth, daughter of W. S. Caine, M.P.; by his second marriage he had a son and a
LEWIS, JOHN HUW (1931 - 2008), printer and publisher much of his time working on maps. Having completed his apprenticeship in the printing industry in London he returned to Llandysul to join the family business, Gwasg Gomer, also known as Gomer Press. The press - founded by his grandfather John David Lewis, in Market Stores, Llandysul, in 1892 - was now being run by J. D. Lewis's two sons: Rhys Lewis (Huw Lewis's father) and Edward Lewis. John Lewis
LEWIS, JOHN SAUNDERS (1893 - 1985), politician, critic and dramatist published the 'Anglo-Welsh' play The Eve of St John (1921), and had taken his first job, as organiser of a scheme to develop rural libraries in Glamorganshire. In 1922 he was appointed to a lectureship in the Department of Welsh at University College Swansea, a post which he held until 1936. He married Margaret Gilcriest (1891-1984) in the Catholic church of Our Lady and St Michael in Workington
LEWIS, JOSHUA (1816 - 1879), Independent minister the pastor Evan Jones; at Tre-lech he began preaching. He entered Carmarthen Academy in 1834, and the reports on him there were exceptionally laudatory. In 1838 he was ordained as co-pastor of Henllan Amgoed - the senior pastor, John Lloyd (1775 - 1850) had been pastor of Henllan and its numerous 'branches' since 1805; but after Lloyd's death Lewis persuaded most of these to become separate churches
LEWIS, MORGAN JOHN (c. 1711 - 1771), Methodist exhorter and hymn-writer
LEWIS, RICHARD MORRIS (1847 - 1918), scholar and littérateur Born 1847 at Forest Arms, Brechfa, Carmarthenshire, son of John and Leisa Lewis. He became principal clerk in H.M. Inland Revenue offices, Swansea. Translations by him appear in Welsh hymnaries; he also made metrical renderings in Welsh of passages from Homer's ' Iliad.' Perhaps his most important contribution is his translation of Gray's Elegy. He died 20 September 1918, and was buried in
LEWIS, Lady RUTH (1871 - 1946), a pioneering collector of Welsh folk-songs, and advocate of educational, religious, temperance and philanthropic bodies , Cambridge. She completed a degree course at Cambridge but, as the university did not award degrees to women, she received an M.A. from the University of Dublin. She worked for a few years, after she graduated, at the Caine Mission Hall in Vauxhall where she took an interest in temperance and in working with young women. She married John Herbert Lewis in 1897 at Clapham; Thomas Gee officiated at the
LEWIS, THOMAS (1859 - 1929) Cameroons, Congo, Baptist missionary Born near Whitland, Carmarthenshire, 13 October 1859, a son of William Lewis, blacksmith and devout Baptist. In 1871 he was baptized and received into Nazareth Baptist church, Whitland. For a while he worked in his father's smithy, but imbued with a missionary purpose (inspired by the story of William Carey) and encouraged to preach, he studied under the Rev. John Evans at S. Clears grammar
LEWIS, THOMAS (1671? - 1735), Baptist minister Born c. 1671, son and heir of John Lewis, landed gentleman and Baptist of Glascwm, Radnorshire, who had experienced persecution under the Restoration. The son, like his father, became a member of the Baptist church at Leominster c. 1692 or at least before 1694, and he is believed to have started to preach soon afterwards. He had left Leominster before 1707 and had incorpoiated the Baptists of
LEWIS, THOMAS (fl. 1731-1749), translator and Methodist exhorter He is said to have been the brother of John Lewis (fl. 1728-55) the printer. He is also believed to have been responsible for the translation into Welsh of Bunyan's Life and Death of Mr. Badman, under the title of Bywyd a Marwolaeth yr Annuwiol dan enw Mr. Drygddyn (Carmarthen, 1731). He was appointed a 'public (i.e. itinerant) exhorter' at the Watford Association, 1743, but it is not safe to
LEWIS, THOMAS ARNOLD (1893 - 1952), insurance manager, treasurer of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion , and High Sheriff of Cardiganshire in 1949. He assisted Sir John Cecil-Williams and Sir Wynn Wheldon with the financial aspect of the appeal launched in 1937 to publish the Dictionary of Welsh Biography, and he succeeded T. D. Slingsby-Jenkins as treasurer of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion in 1950. On 8 September 1924 he married Eleanora Margaret Evans in Charing Cross Chapel, and they had
LEWIS, Sir THOMAS FRANKLAND (1780 - 1855), politician Born 14 May 1780 in London, he was the son of John Lewis of Harpton Court, and came of a family of distinction in the public and parliamentary life of Radnorshire. He became M.P. for Beaumaris in 1812, and sat successively for that borough, for Ennis (County Clare, Ireland), and for Radnorshire until 1834. He was given minor offices in Tory administrations (including that of treasurer of the navy

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